Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: An Active Approach

by Maya Bradley

Book Overview

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700714561
• ISBN13: 9780700714568
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"